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Lab safety isn’t boring with this fun and interactive around the room style, evaluate the lab employee’s safety skills activity. This low prep, print, place and go resource is great way to start back to school by reviewing basic lab safety. Your secondary students will love moving around the room, reading each lab safety character’s employee performance review, identifying all the broken (and followed) lab safety rules and then deciding who they should hire, and who they should fire. Begin by

Teach your students how to recognize different types of thermal energy using this thermal energy conduction, convection and radiation worksheet. This energy resource is a great way to teach every level of secondary how to identify thermal energy transfer in the form of conduction, convection and radiation. Feel free to deviate from the traditional in-class worksheet route and use this resource as sub plans, morning work, a mini class lesson, a homework assignment, a review worksheet, or as a tak

Teach your students how to identify if a bond is ionic, covalent or metallic, using this speed dating style walk around activity. This low prep activity is great for introducing bonding or giving students a comprehensive review. Your secondary students will love creating their own personal element dating profile, and having their element go on 20 “speed dates” to make bonds with the element cards found around the room. Begin by reviewing the three major types of bonding: Ionic, Covalent, and

Review and learn to recognize each of Newton’s three laws of motion using this Newton’s three laws of motion worksheet. This laws of motion resource is great for teaching every level of secondary how to define each law of motion and recognize when each law of motion is demonstrated. Feel free to deviate from the traditional in-class worksheet route and use this resource as sub plans, morning work, a mini class lesson, a homework assignment, a review worksheet, or as a take-home quiz. Stand

Make learning about energy pyramids and trophic levels a hands-on experience using this energy pyramid dilution lab. This resource is great for introducing how energy flows through ecosystems and food webs through a step-by-step process of diluting a beaker of colored water, used to represent the total energy found within the producers trophic level of an energy pyramid. Your secondary students will come away from this activity with a better understanding of the flow of energy in an ecosystem, t

Make calculating pH fun and interactive, with an around the room style mystery liquid pH lab. This hands-on activity has students comparing the pH of an unknown liquid’s litmus test to the calculated pH of the liquids known H+ or OH- concentration. Your secondary students will love testing each liquid with litmus paper, watching the colors change and doing the math to compare their quantitative and qualitative results. Using their collected data, students will then attempt to guess each mystery

Learn about the various parts of the periodic table using this periodic table of elements scavenger hunt worksheet. This resource is a great way to teach every level of secondary how to identify different chemical families on the periodic table of elements and their individual elements. Use this worksheet to help your students learn how to number the periods and families, identify specific elements based on their family characteristics and determine an element’s name and elemental symbol. Feel f

Learn to identify chemical reactions using this step-by-step worksheet on the five types of chemical reactions. This resource is a great way to teach every level of secondary student how to identify a chemical reaction based on its general formula as being a synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement or combustion reaction. Feel free to deviate from the traditional in-class worksheet route and use this resource as sub plans, morning work, a mini class lesson, a homework ass

Teach the gas laws with this interactive identify the gas law in the picture activity. This hands-on, print, place and go activity is a great way to engage your students in learning to identify each of the gas laws by name and understand specific real-life examples. Your secondary students will love walking around the classroom evaluating each picture, determining what variables (volume, pressure, temperature) are affected and deciding which gas law is being demonstrated. Before starting, rea

Make learning accuracy and precision fun with this accuracy and precision paper toss lab. This low prep lab is a great way to teach your students to define accuracy and precision by having them attempt to throw ten paper balls into a trash can at distances of 1 meter, 2 meters, and 3 meters. Your secondary students will love teaming up to record their shots made, their shots attempted, and their shots missed. From their data collected, they will calculate their group’s percent accuracy to determ

Teach your students about valence electrons and drawing Lewis’s dot structures using this valence electrons and drawing Lewis dot structures worksheet. This resource is great for teaching every level of secondary student how to read a periodic table, to find valence electrons, and draw Lewis dot structures. Use this worksheet to help your students to label the valence electrons on a periodic table, determine an atom’s valence electron number and draw its correct Lewis dot structure. Feel free to

Teach your students how to calculate the net force acting on an object using this net force practice problems worksheet. Use this resource to reinforce how to calculate net force by providing your secondary students with the practice needed to learn how vectors can be summed or subtracted. This worksheet provides students with the basics behind how to add and subtract vectors directionally, how to calculate net force, and how to describe direction. Deviate from the traditional in-class worksheet

Teach your students about valence electrons and Lewis dot structures using this valence electrons and Lewis dot structures worksheet. This resource is a great way to teach every level of secondary student how to determine an atom’s valence electron number and draw the corresponding Lewis dot structure. Use this worksheet to help your students learn how to read a periodic table, read Bohr models, determine an atom’s valence electron number and draw its correct Lewis dot structure. Feel free to de

Teach your students about the different types of waves on the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum using this waves and the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum worksheet and activity bundle. This bundled resource comes with Identify the Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum Wave Activity and two electromagnetic (EM) spectrum wave worksheets ( Parts of a Wave Worksheet and Waves and the EM Spectrum Worksheet). Use this bundle to engage your students with a hands-on around the room style activity of identifying the

Get your students skipping, lunge walking and hopping around the room with this fun speed and velocity lab. This inexpensive and low prep lab is great for giving students a real-world connection to the math behind using the speed/velocity equation. Your secondary students will love seeing how fast they can skip, lunge-walk, and hop on one foot, and competing with their peers to see who is the fastest! Begin your lesson by reading the background information provided on the terms speed and veloc

Teach your students all about atoms and the periodic table using this atomic structure and the periodic table worksheet bundle. This resource comes with six different worksheets and keys that teach every level of secondary student the basics of atomic structure. Use this bundle to help your students better understand the parts of an atom, how to read the squares on a periodic table, and the specific calculations needed to find the number of protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom. Feel free t

Learn to identify the parts of an atom using these printed element activity cards. Start by reviewing the three particles that make-up atoms; protons, neutrons, and electrons. Identify where these particles exist within an atom. Determine what the parts on an element represent, as well as how to calculate the mass number and number of neutrons. Using the printed element cards, find each element’s name, atomic number, atomic mass, and number of protons, neutrons and electrons. Standards Covered

Provide your students with the necessary practice needed to learn to translate an mRNA sequence into an amino acid chain using this protein synthesis learning to use a codon chart/wheel worksheet. Use this resource to teach your secondary students how to translate mRNA codons into amino acids using a codon chart and a codon wheel. This worksheet provides students with a basic background on the process of protein synthesis, how translate mRNA into tRNA anti-codons and finally, translating mRNA in

Engage your students in learning about atoms and the periodic table using this atomic structure identify the parts of an atom activity and worksheet bundle. This bundled resource comes with the Identify the Parts of an Atom Activity and two atomic structure worksheets ( Atoms Worksheet and Subatomic Particles Worksheet). Use this bundle to engage your students with a hands-on around the room style activity of identifying the elemental names, proton number, neutron number and electron number fo

Provide your students with the necessary practice needed to transcribe mRNA and translate amino acids using this transcription and translation worksheet. Use this resource to teach your secondary students the steps of transcription and translation within protein synthesis. This worksheet provides students with the DNA sequence and the practice needed to transcribe the sequence into mRNA and finally, into the corresponding amino acids. Deviate from the traditional in-class worksheet route and us